Maria Fisker Stokholm (born 3 October 1990) is a Danish

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player for

Viborg HK Viborg HK (Viborg Håndbold Klub) is a Danish professional handball club from Viborg, Denmark, Viborg. The club has many teams for both women and men, but especially the professional women's team is one of the most successful in Danish and Euro ...

and the Danish national team. She was given the award of ''Cetățean de onoare'' ("

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") of the city of

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in 2016.

Club career

Maria Fisker started playing handball at Vissing-Hadsten HK. In 2005 she signed for

Randers HK Randers HK is a women's handball club based in Randers, Denmark. They competes in the Danish 1st Division for the 2024/25 season and plays their home matches in Arena Randers. History Randers HK was founded in 1996 as a collaborative effort ...

, but only stayed there for a year before signing for the Danish top club

. She debuted for the Viborg team in 2007, 25 days before she turned 17. This made her the third youngest player in the

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at the time. At the 2013 World Championship, she was a part of the Danish team that won bronze medals, breaking a 9 year streak without medals for the Danish team. They beat Poland 30-26. In 2015 she suffered a

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that put her on the sidelines for the entire spring season. She had just signed for Romanian club

CSM București Clubul Sportiv Municipal București, commonly known as CSM București is a Romanian professional multi-sports club based in Bucharest. Departments Active branches: *Athletics *Basketball *Dancesport *Handball *Judo *Scrabble *Volleyball Defunct ...

, where she only played for a season. She returned to Danish handball to join her former club

in 2016, where she played for 3 years, before re-joining

. In 2019 Viborg HK signed her to replace

Ann Grete Nørgaard Ann Grete Nørgaard Østerballe (born 15 September 1983) is a Danish former professional handballer. She represented the Denmark women's national team, and has been called one the best Danish wing players of all time. Career Viborg HK Nørgaard ...

, who had signed for SCM Ramnicu Valcea.

Achievements

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: **''Bronze Medalist'':

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

**''Fourth place'':

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

* Danish Championship: **''Winner'': 2008, 2009, 2014 *

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: **''Winner'': 2007, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016 *Danish Supercup: **''Winner'': 2011 * Romanian Championship: **''Winner'':

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

: **''Winner'':

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

EHF Cup Winners' Cup The EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for men's and women's handball clubs of Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocea ...

: **''Winner'': 2014 *

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

: **''Winner'':

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Individual awards

*All-Star Left Wing of the

European Championship A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

* Handball-Planet.com Best Left Wing: 2014

References

1990 births Living people People from Hadsten Danish female handball players Viborg HK players Handball players from the Central Denmark Region People from Favrskov Municipality Danish expatriate handball players in Romania 21st-century Danish sportswomen {{Denmark-handball-bio-stub